Smooth & Easy By Karen A VandenBos

She arrived as always on a skateboard

wearing her ten cent sunglasses and a

crescent moon smile.

Pirouetting around the crowded room

she landed at the back corner table under

the one eyed moose and ordered the

usual two beers.

She warmed up like a sloe gin fizz until

she could melt an ice cube with her stare

in five seconds flat.

Note for note she knew every country

song the band played and had even lived

a few of them.

It was said that she pissed glitter and

wrote love poems in lipstick on the stalls

and bathroom mirrors.

She rolled her own cigarettes and left

broken hearts scattered across the

hardwood floors, still smoldering.

At last call the wolves knew the only

man she would stand by was named Jack.

She'd wrap her hand around him and

take him down, smooth and easy.

Once upon a time, Karen A VandenBos was born on a warm July morn in Kalamazoo, MI.

She can be found unleashing her imagination in three online writing groups and her writing

has been published in Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Blue Heron Review, The Ekphrastic Review,

The Rye Whiskey Review, One Art: a journal of poetry and others.